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The 2020 Kansas legislative session has begun. To give area residents a better glimpse of what to expect in Topeka this year, Allen County Farm Bureau Association is hosting a legislative update at 5:30 p.m.…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas’ Democratic governor and a top Republican lawmaker on Thursday outlined a new proposal for expanding the state’s Medicaid program, breaking an impasse that had allowed a handful of GOP leaders…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas governor plans to merge a state agency that has been under fire in recent years over abused childrens deaths with another social services department in the hopes that the state…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly proposed Monday that Kansas give itself more breathing room in its budget by slashing annual payments to its pension system for teachers and government workers, offering a…
Kansas educators want lawmakers to act on health care, bullying and college credits when the Legislature convenes later this month. For over a decade, the school funding battle has dominated any conversation about education in…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas new chief justice plans to push for changes aimed at helping veterans and the mentally ill, and expects to press for a big budget increase from a Republican-controlled Legislature thats…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Six trial-court judges in Kansas filed a lawsuit Friday against the state Legislature in hopes of forcing it to increase funding for the court system in a move certain to intensify…
Democrats took full control of the Virginia legislature for the first time in more than two decades while the race for governor in deeply Republican Kentucky was too close to call despite a last-minute boost…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A Kansas Supreme Court justice whose votes for abortion rights and against the death penalty made him a political target plans to retire in three months, allowing Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas Supreme Court signed off Friday on an increase in spending on public schools that the Democratic governor pushed through the Republican-controlled Legislature, but the justices refused to close the…
